A recent episode of Flash Forward talked about babelfish; one of the things that the people interviewed complained about is shallow tech pieces that talk about the imminent coming of the automatic translator app. The note here is exactly that kind of thing, which glosses over the real-world problems with this kind of automatic translation.http://www.flashforwardpod.com/2016/05/03/episode-12-omnibot/

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